Children's books
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altarielStars, memory, dreams, and untimely death were much on my mind over the weekend.
This is what I ended up writing about them.
In between all this and the rest, I spent a fair bit of the weekend reading and rereading children's books. I read Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer for the first time, and liked it, although it was uneven. The successes were in the minor details of the Great War noticed but not understood by the young protagonist.
Then I reread When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson, which I had liked as a child, and which moved me this time too. Again - memory, dreams, untimely death.
And then I started on the pile of Alan Garner novels which I bought a while back. I'm content now to dismiss The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath as derivative rubbish (no wonder I didn't read any more Garner as a child!), but The Owl Service and Red Shift are something else. I'm going to need more time to process them, but stars, memory, dreams, and untimely death seem all to signify.
And then I watched The American President, which turned out to be some kind of prototype for The West Wing - it was written by Aaron Sorkin. Martin Sheen was even in it, although it was disconcerting for him not to be playing the President.
This is what I ended up writing about them.
In between all this and the rest, I spent a fair bit of the weekend reading and rereading children's books. I read Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer for the first time, and liked it, although it was uneven. The successes were in the minor details of the Great War noticed but not understood by the young protagonist.
Then I reread When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson, which I had liked as a child, and which moved me this time too. Again - memory, dreams, untimely death.
And then I started on the pile of Alan Garner novels which I bought a while back. I'm content now to dismiss The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath as derivative rubbish (no wonder I didn't read any more Garner as a child!), but The Owl Service and Red Shift are something else. I'm going to need more time to process them, but stars, memory, dreams, and untimely death seem all to signify.
And then I watched The American President, which turned out to be some kind of prototype for The West Wing - it was written by Aaron Sorkin. Martin Sheen was even in it, although it was disconcerting for him not to be playing the President.
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